We see 3.6 Gb/sec with IPoIB using RHEL4U4 2.6.9-42 x86_64 kernel on Dell PE1950 Woodcrest systems.
In my testing, faster hardware is more important than newer kernels, but I don't try newer kernels much. Scott Weitzenkamp SQA and Release Manager Server Virtualization Business Unit Cisco Systems > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Lindahl > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 1:16 PM > To: Sean Hubbell > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [openib-general] IPoIB Question > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:35:18AM -0500, Sean Hubbell wrote: > > > We are currently looking at the new tickless kernel. Do you > have one > > that you recommend? > > The main one to less-recommend is 2.6.9-based kernels, those are the > slowest at TCP. Modern kernels, like the ones you see in Fedora 4 and > up and SLES 10, seem to all be good and about equal in this area. > > I don't think we've tried a tickless kernel. We do most of our testing > on the various kernels that ship with distros, plus the tip-of-tree > kernel.org kernel. > > -- greg > > > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
